European Workshop on Grid-based Virtual Organisations & collaborative e-Enterprise European Workshop on Grid-based Virtual Organisations & collaborative e-Enterprise applicationsapplications

Toan NGUYEN

May 30th, 2003

London (UK)

Business models, use cases and requirements for Grid platforms, services and architectureBusiness models, use cases and requirements for Grid platforms, services and architecture

Virtual organisations & Multidisciplinary Applications

• VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS

• CONCLUSIONS

OUTLINEOUTLINE

• MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

• OPEN QUESTIONS

• INRIA

Created 1967

Ministry of Research & Ministry of Industry

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE

National Research Institute for Computer Science and Automatic Control

http://www.inria.fr

• Areas

• Located Sophia-Antipolis & Grenoble

• Follow-up SINUS project

• INRIA project (January 2002)

OPALEOPALE

NUMERIC OPTIMISATION (genetic, hybrid, …)MODEL REDUCTION (hierarchic, multi-grids, …)INTEGRATION PLATFORMS

Coupling, distribution, parallelism, grids, clusters, ...APPLICATIONS : aerospace, electromagnetics, …

GRID COMPUTINGGRID COMPUTING

• HIGH THROUGHPUT COMPUTING

• HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

• PETA-DATA MANAGEMENT

• LONG DURATION APPLICATIONS

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Volet sortiBec sorti

Corps principal

MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONSMULTIDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONSAEROSPACE DESIGN

AERODYNAMICS & ACOUSTICS

MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGNMULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN

• HIGH-LIFT DEVICES : 1 CRITERION / 1 DISCIPLINE : MAXIMIZE LIFT

• DRAG-BUFFETING : 2 CRITERIA / 1 DISCIPLINE : MINIMIZE CRUISE DRAG & MAXIMIZE Cz BUFFET

• AERO-ACOUSTICS & HIGH-LIFT DEVICES : 2 CRITERIA/ 2 DISCIPLINES : NOISE REDUCTION OF MULTI-ELEMENTS AIRFOILS

DURING TAKE-OFF

• SUPERSONIC REGIME & BANG : 2 CRITERIA/ 2 DISCIPLINES

• SUPERSONIC REGIME & NOISE REDUCTION : 2 CRITERIA/ 2 DISCIPLINES

INTEGRATING MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS in VOs

INTEGRATING MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS in VOs

• INTEGRATION OF PARTNERS’ EXPERTISE TO DEPLOY COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS

• NETWORKED PC-CLUSTERS, COMPUTERS & DATABASES TO SUPPORT MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHALLENGES

• HIGH-LEVEL PROCEDURES FOR CONCURRENT ENGINEERING (CSCW, VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS & ENTERPRISES …)

• INCLUDE CAD/CAM, MULTI-PHYSICS SOLVERS & OPTIMIZERS, VR, DIGITAL MOCKUPS, …

• SHOULD & CAN VOs EMULATE PROBLEM SOLVING ENV. ?

• HOW CAN COMPUTE & BUSINESS MODELS BE ADAPTED TO MAKE BEST USE OF VOs ?

OPEN VO QUESTIONS OPEN VO QUESTIONS

• WHERE DO VOs NOT MAKE SENSE ?

• WHAT IS THE REAL COST OF OPERATING VOs ?

• CAN VOs HELP FOR MULDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS ?

• HOW TO USE VOs FOR HIGH I/O APPLICATIONS ?

• HOW TO DESIGN VOs FOR HIGH AVAILABILITY ?

REQUIREMENTS REQUIREMENTS

• NEED FOR VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT

• NEED FOR CSCW PROCEDURES & SUPPORT

• NEED FOR GRID COMPUTING

• NEED FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASE TECHNOLOGY

• NEED FOR FRIENDLY USER INTERFACES

Distributed Data BasesCSCW

Local SolversDeterministic/Stochastic Optimizers

Validation codes

RESEARCH CENTRESAND UNIVERSITIES

INDUSTRY

Industrial multi physics test cases

High performance computers

Local DatabasesGraphic analysis toolsValidation guidelines

Multi-Physics optimisationPC clusters

GOVERMENT INSTITUTIONS

Generic multiphysics test cases

PC clusters

Communication SystemWeb-based system

Computing SystemGrid computing environment

Concurrent engineeringplatform

VO PLATFORMS VO PLATFORMS

• MAY OVERLAP & SPECIFIC VIEWS FEDERATED RESOURCES

• DYNAMIC COLLECTIONS DISTRIBUTED USERS & RESOURCES

• DISTRIBUTED ALLOCATION MANAGEMENT & SCHEDULING

VO FUNCTIONALITIESVO FUNCTIONALITIES

• SUPPORT MEMBERSHIP & ACCESS PROTOCOLS

• SCALABLE & ROBUST ARCHITECTURE & PROTOCOLS

• EASY ACCESS & CONTROL OF APPLICATIONS

• VIRTUAL GROUPS, PROJECTS, TEAMS… ?

• VALUE ADDED INCENTIVES vs. CURRENT RELUCTANCE

VO : WHAT IS MISSING ?VO : WHAT IS MISSING ?

• FILLING THE GAP BETWEEN TECHNOLOGIESSHARING DATA BETWEEN VIRTUAL REALITY & CAD/CAM SOFTWARE

• SEAMLESS INTEGRATION WITH LEGACY APPLICATIONS

• VIRTUAL REALITY

• IS TECHNOLOGY HERE ALREADY ?

• DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS STEERING

VO : OPEN ISSUESVO : OPEN ISSUES

• CSCW

• ROBUST SHARING OF RESOURCES

• INTERACTIVE REAL-TIME CHANGE MANAGEMENT

CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION

• CONCEPT FOR BEST USE PRACTICE FOR EXISTING GRIDS ?

• IF NOT, IS VOs ADDED-VALUE SO OBVIOUS ?

• IF NOT, WHERE & HOW IS ADDED-VALUE ADDED ?

PROVOCATIVE & PESSIMISTIC

• ARE VOs NECESSARY ?

• WHERE DOES ADDED-VALUE MAKE SENSE ?

CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION

« THE DIGITAL DYNAMIC AIRCRAFT »LARGE DYNAMIC COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS

OPTIMISTIC

REFERENCESREFERENCES

Toan.Nguyen@inrialpes.fr

• http://www.inrialpes.fr/opale